I was looking at the dropdown authors menu on the Think09 website and I was ganging the top 5 posters on it. I meant the numerical number of posts now. So since the first of February the top five posters are: 1. Ari Rusila is the top poster he currently has 24 posts on the blog. He is from Finland. His main blog is AriRusila’s BalkanBlog 2. In second is an Irish blogger, Eamonn Fitzgerald. He has 16 posts...
Daily Archives: April 10, 2009
Th!nk09: People don’t know what MEP’s do
On Monday after the Fine Gael Ard Fheis, UCC Young Fine Gael had a walk about in Cork City for Sean Kelly, a Fine Gael candidate in Ireland South. One member of the public asked to meet Sean Kelly, he was introduced. What was his question? Go on take a guess. Can you get me a house? Yes, in typical Irish fashion, his question was on the housing lists which plague this country. This is something so sitting or...
Canvassing a tiring business, but worth it!
Last night I was out canvassing in Cork South Central ward for Emmett O’Halloran. We were canvassing in the Turners Cross area of the ward. In my years of canvassing, I have rarely come across a reaction as I did last night. Apart from one or two “plague on all your houses” voters, the majority were very positive when they saw “Fine Gael” on the leaflet or knew of Emmett and were willing to support him. Cork South Central...
Good Friday = Boring Friday
I got an email from a promoter during the week calling today”the Great Thirst”. He said in the email: This is the week of the great thirst when 2 oppressive regimes, the Church and State, come together and deprive us of our birth right, the very thing that defines us as a people! I am of course talking about the demon drink, the drop of the queer stuff, the very thing that gifts us with the gift of the...
Predicting the European Election
I came across this site while checking out my new followers on twitter. The website is Predict 09. Predict09.eu is a prediction of the outcome of the June 2009 European Parliament elections and the resulting make-up of the next European Parliament. The prediction is based on a statistical model of the performance of national parties in European Parliament elections, developed by three leading political scientists: Simon Hix (London School of Economics), Michael Marsh (Trinity College Dublin), and Nick Vivyan...
Friday Links 10/04/09
Image by Always Be CoOL via Flickr I have decdied this week no more Wednesday links, so just Monday and Friday from now on! Blacknight have a post-budget coupon going for discounts on their hosting plan. JoeJ has the details on Great Friday. New Blog: Irish Opinions Blog Darragh has an exclusive on #alanshair MTV have a European Election Campaign (its even in Irish!) Tweet the tag #CanEUhearme to get on the website LGBTNosie have had their twitter accound...
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